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Surprising Dad with The Book of Dad

This year has seen my family in hospital several times this
year. First the eldest trapped her finger in the kitchen door, my sister and I
had babies and my father was hospitalised after sawing off his fingers while
out chopping wood! Hopefully there won’t be any more accidents this year or
future years come to that matter.

As you can imagine my Father has been feeling rather down about losing his fingers so I thought that
he could do with a pick me up. When The Book of Everyone got in contact asking
me to review their wonderful Book of Dad I jumped at the chance and am so
pleased I did. This was a lovely pick me up that he really liked.

The website enables you to build your own book asking you to
choose from the pages available, you can also change some of the words that go
into it and add the odd photo you own too. My favourite part of the book is the
newspaper page where I got to add my own photo. I did find the book a little
restrictive in parts I ended up choosing a page with a football as there’s not
one with a golf ball and club. There also seems to be added pages that I didn't
see on the computer.

On the whole though my Dad and I were really happy with the
book and he was pleasantly surprised to receive it in the post.

With its personalised touches and fun designs. The Book of Dad is fantastic for Fathers who are often difficult to buy for. Let’s face it
there’s only so many times you can buy them chocolates right?!

Disclaimer: My Dad was sent The Book of Dad in return for an honest opinion.

Oh my, hopefully there won't be any more incidents. I haven't seen this type of book before. How lovely! I always think that personalised gifts just that extra something. Thank you for sharing with the #DreamTeam

Ah that's so cool! I will have to check this out, definitely something my mom would love. Looks like a beautiful book and love that you get to choose the story. Thanks so much for sharing with #GlobalBlogging!

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